On October 12, the winners of the 2003 Children's Music Web awards will be announced. My CD - 'Up and Over the Moon! - is a finalist in the Best Recording for Toddlers category. (We had to pick a category....the music is actually appropriate for children of all ages).

The winners get spider stickers to put on their CDs. Living as I do up here in Canada, we don't see too many CDs with spider stickers on them. It is not a familiar award symbol here. So I'm wondering if any my American Mudcat parents could tell me the meaning or influence of a spider sticker on a children's CD south of the border.

One store manager told me that if a parent doesn't know a children's music performer, they are often influenced to buy the CD if it bears a sticker. Mine already have a sticker. I don't think there is room for another one. But those spiders are awfully cute.

~black walnut